Romania’s largest documentary film event boasts four official competitions this year. A total of 126 films from 45 countries and five continents will meet the Romanian audience at the 26th edition of the Astra Film Festival, the country's biggest documentary gathering. Fifty-five of the films will be shown as world, international or national premieres at Astra. Forty-six movies will be competing in the festival's four official competitions, while another 80 will be screened in 12 thematic sections or in the Astra Film Junior programme, which is intended to educate the next generation of documentary lovers. The titles announced for the International Competition are Pawel Ziemilski's In Touch (Poland/Iceland), César Alejandro Jaimes and Juan Pablo Polanco's Lapü (Colombia), Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin's Scheme Birds (Sweden/UK), Valentina Primavera's Una Primavera (Italy/Austria/Germany), Andrei Kutsila's Strip and War (Belarus/Poland), Jane Bibi's A Perfect Housewife (Israel), Elodie Lélu's Letter to Theo.